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privileged site

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priv·i·leged site (prv-ljd, prvljd)
n.
An area in the body lacking lymphatic drainage, such as the cornea of the eye, in which rejection of foreign tissue grafts does not occur.


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From the point of view of discipline, the body is not a point of resistance to power but the privileged site of its immanent production.
A second sign will be the readiness to celebrate an incarnational faith that, indeed, embraces the body--and, indeed, all bodies with their imperfections and limitations--as a privileged site for encountering the sacred in the midst of everyday life.
15) Among these parallel projects, Halley marks out queer theory as the privileged site of an urgent deconstruction of sex that regards bodies, sex acts, erotic desires, sexual identity and love as wholly disjunctive ideas, too incongruous in fact to uphold a male/female opposition in theory.
 
 
 
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